Kolbecast

Kolbe Academy

The official podcast of Kolbe Academy with lively discussions on home & distance education, Kolbe Academy, and our Catholic community.

  1. 5d ago

    324 Common Pitfalls and Stumbling Blocks

    AMDG. Today we’re joined by three experienced homeschooling mothers and Kolbe Academy academic advisors. Rylan Buchanan, Diana Hayes, and Sarah Turley take up the topic of common pitfalls and stumbling blocks that can come up when homeschooling. From planning to balancing multiple children, avoiding burnout and surviving times of illness and disruption, our guests provide us with a great deal of practical wisdom along with a reminder to be kind and patient with ourselves.  Links mentioned & relevant:  Kolbe Academy’s Family Advising Services  Kolbe Academy’s Partnership Meetings  Related Kolbecast episodes:  Advisor series:  313 Preparing for a Stellar School Year  319 Tapestry in the Making  320 College Considerations  321 Building a Strong Extracurricular Profile  323 Ordinary Days   232 Part of the Family   Have questions or suggestions for future episodes or a story of your own experience that you’d like to share? We'd love to hear from you! Send your thoughts to podcast@kolbe.org and be a part of the Kolbecast odyssey.   We’d be grateful for your feedback! Please share your thoughts with us via this Kolbecast survey!  The Kolbecast is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and most podcast apps. By leaving a rating and review in your podcast app of choice, you can help the Kolbecast reach more listeners. The Kolbecast is also on Kolbe's YouTube channel (audio only with subtitles).  Using the filters on our website, you can sort through the episodes to find just what you're looking for. However you listen, spread the word about the Kolbecast!

  2. Aug 5

    323 Ordinary Days

    AMDG. Today, Kolbe Advisors Michelle Koechle, Jennifer Thomas and Sarah Turley join the Kolbecast to discuss approaches to homeschooling and what a day of homeschooling might look like.   From schedules and spaces to adjusting to moves and when the unexpected comes up, our guests give us some models for what this can look like and some wisdom on how we can adjust.  Links mentioned & relevant:  Kolbe Academy’s Family Advising Services  Kolbe Academy’s Student Support Services  Related Kolbecast episodes:  Advisor series:  313 Preparing for a Stellar School Year  319 Tapestry in the Making  320 College Considerations  321 Building a Strong Extracurricular Profile  197 Tools in a Toolbox: Kolbe Student Support Services  232 Part of the Family: Parents & Advisors as Partners  269 Resources and Roadmaps  203 Guided Freedom (Classical Composition)  256 An Education that Reflects God’s Beauty with Nicole O’Connor and Maggie Hayden  Have questions or suggestions for future episodes or a story of your own experience that you’d like to share? We'd love to hear from you! Send your thoughts to podcast@kolbe.org and be a part of the Kolbecast odyssey.   We’d be grateful for your feedback! Please share your thoughts with us via this Kolbecast survey!  The Kolbecast is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and most podcast apps. By leaving a rating and review in your podcast app of choice, you can help the Kolbecast reach more listeners. The Kolbecast is also on Kolbe's YouTube channel (audio only with subtitles).  Using the filters on our website, you can sort through the episodes to find just what you're looking for. However you listen, spread the word about the Kolbecast!

  3. Jul 29

    322 Intentionality, Greatness, Dignity, Vision, and Faith - Commencement 2026

    AMDG. Today, we bring to you the speakers from the 2026 Kolbe Commencement.   Kolbe Academy’s senior enrollment director Jon Bates serves as Master of Ceremonies, introducing Fr. Raymond Pendelton, who gives the invocation, and Kolbe Academy’s chief academic officer Megan Lengyel, who gives the welcome address. Then we hear from student speakers Laura Hill and Holden Mora, Kolbe instructor and theology chair Nick Senz, and Dr. Stephen Minis, president of Benedictine College.   We hope that you enjoy the words of wisdom from all of these individuals, however, if you’d like to jump to a particular speaker, here are the timestamps for each speaker:  Invocation by Fr. Raymond Pendleton: 01:16  Welcome address by Mrs. Megan Lengyel: 02:41  Laura Hill: 04:36  Holden Mora: 12:03  Nicholas Senz: 31:14  Stephen Minnis: 53:41  Relevant links & Kolbecast episodes:  Kolbecast episodes with faculty speaker Nick Senz:   300 The Gift of the Sacraments with Brendan Murphy discussing Nick’s book on the sacraments  91 Kernels of Truth with Chrissy Almanzar  Watch the entire 2026 commencement ceremony here.  Benedictine College in Atchison, KS, is one of Kolbe Academy’s college partners.   Have questions or suggestions for future episodes or a story of your own experience that you’d like to share? We'd love to hear from you! Send your thoughts to podcast@kolbe.org and be a part of the Kolbecast odyssey.   We’d be grateful for your feedback! Please share your thoughts with us via this Kolbecast survey!  The Kolbecast is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and most podcast apps. By leaving a rating and review in your podcast app of choice, you can help the Kolbecast reach more listeners. The Kolbecast is also on Kolbe's YouTube channel (audio only with subtitles).  Using the filters on our website, you can sort through the episodes to find just what you're looking for. However you listen, spread the word about the Kolbecast!

  4. Jul 22

    321 Building a Strong Extracurricular Profile

    AMDG. Today, Kolbe advisors Pam Castor, Abby Ehlers, and Krysten Pizzurrro join the Kolbecast to discuss extra-curricular activities in homeschooling. Homeschooling is certainly about educating the minds of our children, but we’re always striving to bring about the well-being of the whole person. Activities outside of schooling can play an important role in this, with activities such as sports, serving in the parish, and groups such as scouting.   These advisors give us some examples of how this can be done and provide us with advice on how to find balance.  Links mentioned & relevant:  Articles from the Academics & Advising section of the Help Center:  Scheduling Recommendations  Cultivating Friendships and Enriching Social Activities for Homeschool Students   Scheduling the Elementary and Middle School Day  Extracurricular Activity Tracker  High Academics, Non-Academics, and Activities  Related Kolbecast episodes:  258 Seeking, Finding, and Building Community - Groups and Extracurriculars  313 Preparing for a Stellar School Year  320 College Considerations  125 Call the Advisor  284 Flexibility and Structure for the Early Years with Pam Castor and Emmanuelle Wilhelm  Have questions or suggestions for future episodes or a story of your own experience that you’d like to share? We'd love to hear from you! Send your thoughts to podcast@kolbe.org and be a part of the Kolbecast odyssey.   We’d be grateful for your feedback! Please share your thoughts with us via this Kolbecast survey!  The Kolbecast is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and most podcast apps. By leaving a rating and review in your podcast app of choice, you can help the Kolbecast reach more listeners. The Kolbecast is also on Kolbe's YouTube channel (audio only with subtitles).  Using the filters on our website, you can sort through the episodes to find just what you're looking for. However you listen, spread the word about the Kolbecast!

  5. Jul 15

    320 College Considerations

    AMDG. Kolbe Academy advisors Cecilia Byers and Elyse Williams return to the Kolbecast in a conversation about preparing students for college.   From early preparations to discerning what might be the right field and the right college, Cecilia and Elyse provide great advice on how to navigate this journey and also how our Kolbe families can lean on them as advisors to help them along the way.  Links mentioned and relevant:  Career Guidance and Discernment section of Kolbe’s Help Center website  Interest & Ability Tools article  High School Graduation Plan Progress article  College Planning section of Help Center  Related Kolbecast episodes:  313 Preparing for a Stellar School Year  230 A Multi-Pronged Approach to College Prep  296 Tips for Testing Success  241 Renew, Resolve, Reengage with Elyse, which discusses various types of career and aptitude testing  84 The Essence of Catholic Education and 157 Renewal, Revival, Variety, and Unity with Patrick Reilly of the Cardinal Newman Society  Episodes with the College Partners and Life after Kolbe tags on the Kolbe.org/Podcast page  Have questions or suggestions for future episodes or a story of your own experience that you’d like to share? We'd love to hear from you! Send your thoughts to podcast@kolbe.org and be a part of the Kolbecast odyssey.   We’d be grateful for your feedback! Please share your thoughts with us via this Kolbecast survey!  The Kolbecast is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and most podcast apps. By leaving a rating and review in your podcast app of choice, you can help the Kolbecast reach more listeners. The Kolbecast is also on Kolbe's YouTube channel (audio only with subtitles).  Using the filters on our website, you can sort through the episodes to find just what you're looking for. However you listen, spread the word about the Kolbecast!

  6. Jul 8

    319 Tapestry in the Making

    AMDG. Today, Kolbe Advisors Rylan Buchanan and Sarah Howard join the Kolbecast to offer some tips and advice on homeschooling. They also remind us of how Kolbe’s family advisors can help our parents effectively navigate their homeschooling journey.  As Sarah points out, homeschooling can be a bit like making a tapestry. When you’re in the thick of it you can see the knots and it can look messy, but when you turn it around, you can see the beautiful work that has been done.   Advisors like Rylan and Sarah help our families with that homeschooling work and can also encourage us to see the beautiful progress when we’re in the thick of it.  Links mentioned & relevant:  Kolbe Academy’s Family Advising Services  HSLDA.org   Help Center articles  Grade Level Course Selection Guides  6th-12th Grade Math & Science Sequence  High School Graduation Plan Progress and Fillable Graduation Planner  Scheduling Your Elementary and Middle School Day  Scheduling Your High School Day  Monitoring & Verifying Store Credit  Related Kolbecast episodes:   197 Tools in a Toolbox: Kolbe Student Support Services  232 Part of the Family: Parents & Advisors as Partners  269 Resources and Roadmaps  243 Drawing Distinctions - Classical Education, Liberal Arts, and Liberal Education  Have questions or suggestions for future episodes or a story of your own experience that you’d like to share? We'd love to hear from you! Send your thoughts to podcast@kolbe.org and be a part of the Kolbecast odyssey.   We’d be grateful for your feedback! Please share your thoughts with us via this Kolbecast survey!  The Kolbecast is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and most podcast apps. By leaving a rating and review in your podcast app of choice, you can help the Kolbecast reach more listeners. The Kolbecast is also on Kolbe's YouTube channel (audio only with subtitles).  Using the filters on our website, you can sort through the episodes to find just what you're looking for. However you listen, spread the word about the Kolbecast!

  7. Jul 1

    318 Matthew Mehan, an Aesop for America

    AMDG. Kolbe’s own Neva Hernandez joins Bonnie and Steven to welcome Dr. Matthew Mehan to the Kolbecast. Dr. Mehan is a best-selling author and the Associate Dean and Professor of Government at the Van Andel Graduate School of Government at Hillsdale College’s Washington D.C. campus.   As we come to our country’s 250th birthday, we discuss history, poetry and Dr. Mehan’s new book The American Book of Fables.   This new book explores our country and its history through the eyes of American animals and has materials for “Littles”, “Middles” and “Bigs” and with its beautiful illustrations can be enjoyed by the whole family.  Links mentioned and relevant:  The American Book of Fables by Dr. Matthew Mehan  Trailer for The American Book of Fables  Mr. Mehan’s Mildly Amusing Book of Mythical Mammals and The Handsome Little Cygnet, also written by Dr. Matthew Mehan and illustrated by artist John Folley  Dr. Mehan is @mtmehan on Instagram and X  Watch trailers for Dr. Mehan's books on YouTube  Dr. Gerard Wegemer of the Thomas More Studies program at the University of Dallas  Relevant Kolbecast episodes:  192 Kitchen Doings, Neva’s Kolbecast debut  175 A Both-And Approach with Dr. Jonathan Sanford, president of the University of Dallas  312 Educating for Liberty with Dr. Tom Harmon  Have questions or suggestions for future episodes or a story of your own experience that you’d like to share? We'd love to hear from you! Send your thoughts to podcast@kolbe.org and be a part of the Kolbecast odyssey.   We’d be grateful for your feedback! Please share your thoughts with us via this Kolbecast survey!  The Kolbecast is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and most podcast apps. By leaving a rating and review in your podcast app of choice, you can help the Kolbecast reach more listeners. The Kolbecast is also on Kolbe's YouTube channel (audio only with subtitles).  Using the filters on our website, you can sort through the episodes to find just what you're looking for. However you listen, spread the word about the Kolbecast!

  8. Jun 24

    317 Saints in the Making with Lisa Hendey

    AMDG. We are joined by mother, grandmother, author, speaker, and podcaster Lisa Hendey. Many parents, or at least their children, will be familiar with Lisa’s Chime Travelers series of books, which explore children who travel through time to meet saints who help them solve problems in their own time. The books have recently been made into an animated television series. We discuss the origins of the series and the process of bringing these wonderful stories on screen. We also visit about Lisa’s wide-ranging writing and speaking for audiences of all ages.  Links mentioned and relevant:  Chime Travelers website  Chime Travelers trailer  Lisa’s website  Lisa’s Substack  Holy Cross Family Ministries  Lisa’s books  Chime Travelers series The Handbook for Catholic Women  The Grace of Yes  Jesus Every Day, Jesus Every Way  Danielle Bean’s Substack  Related Kolbecast episodes:  303 Hallow and the Road Home  308 Understand, Live, and Share the Faith with The Augustine Institute  131 It’s All about Relationship with Danielle Bean  133 An Audience of One with Kolbe Academi alumni turned students of John Paul the Great Catholic University  73 Through Beauty and Technology with Leila Castillo and Dolores Mihaliak  Have questions or suggestions for future episodes or a story of your own experience that you’d like to share? We'd love to hear from you! Send your thoughts to podcast@kolbe.org and be a part of the Kolbecast odyssey.   We’d be grateful for your feedback! Please share your thoughts with us via this Kolbecast survey!  The Kolbecast is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and most podcast apps. By leaving a rating and review in your podcast app of choice, you can help the Kolbecast reach more listeners. The Kolbecast is also on Kolbe's YouTube channel (audio only with subtitles).  Using the filters on our website, you can sort through the episodes to find just what you're looking for. However you listen, spread the word about the Kolbecast!

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The official podcast of Kolbe Academy with lively discussions on home & distance education, Kolbe Academy, and our Catholic community.

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    Kolbe Academy
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2026
  • Episodes
    324
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